‘Stories Worth Telling’

Do you know why people quit their jobs? Nothing has changed. People quit their jobs now for the same reason they always have. They quit to get away from bad managers. Here are the statistics. More than half of the people surveyed say they left their old job to get away from a bad manager. […]

Yesterday I almost ran over a goose. For a while I didn’t know what was going to happen. He (or she) was stubborn and so was I. In the end everything worked out fine. I slowed, and he turned the other way. We were spared from having an ugly confrontation. From that little drama my […]

I’m writing this on Tuesday, and this has been a good day. This leads to two questions. First, what makes a good day? and second, what do you do when you don’t have a good day? My good day had to do with the people I work with and the good gifts God has given. […]

In high school I never considered myself a great student of English literature, but I have always been amazed at how much of English lit – – especially poetry – – I remember. Poetry, by its very nature, lends itself to memory. I still remember reading the wonderful poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, […]

Just a few minutes ago I went through a traffic circle, what the British call a “roundabout.” All of a sudden the area where I live has been filled with roundabouts, some of them in high traffic areas and the one I crossed over earlier in a residential area. All of these are new and […]